I finally "switched". My last laptop, an ASUS Z96JS has had so many problems that I have given up on it. So I had narrowed it down to the Thinkpad T60/T61 and the Macbook Pro 2.2GHz. I wanted 64 bit support and Mac OS X has it - Vista and XP have 64 bit support, but finding driver support is nearly impossible.
So, I moved to the Mac. The first thing I did is put 4gb of RAM in it and install VMWARE Fusion. From a speed perspective, VMWARE is performing faster than a Core 2 Duo 2.14ghz using a stop watch to time boot up.
I'm running Firefox with zero problems. iPhoto and iMovie - where have they been all my life. These are great applications with simple and complex options. Microsoft has a remote desktop client for the Mac - that works great. And as soon as I opened the terminal prompt, I checked and SSH is preinstalled and so is PERL.
This is the most usable system (out of the box) I have ever had. From a performance aspect - it smoke everything else I've got. Susposedly the next revision of Mac OS X (Leopard) will even make better use of the 64 bit CPU.
VMWARE got it right with this version, called Fusion. Not only is it cheaper than the Windows and Linux cousins - it has a new feature for some guest OS'es where it will automatically set them up if you give it a password and the license key.
More to come on this.
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